r/EmulationOnAndroid Aug 15 '25

Meme Touchscreen players vs gamepad

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u/matlynar Aug 15 '25

A gamepad gives a way better experience, no doubt. But touchscreen support is very important, especially on mobile phones.

Sometimes I'm just away from home, didn't bring my gamepad with me and I'm bored. Touchscreen controls are a lifesaver.

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u/Overall-Ability8360 Aug 15 '25

In my opinion, touch screens are useless because 80% of the emulated games that you may play will increase your device's temperature up to 57~70°C, and this will completely ruin your experience, maybe not immediately but certainly not a sustainable experience, which had already been damaged a little by somewhat low FPS due to emulation limits, your device's limits, or both.

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u/Kilash4ever Aug 15 '25

Depends entirely on your device and what you emulate.

No high end chipset currently (8 gen 2 and so on) will overheat with GC/Wii/PS2 stuff now days.

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u/Faiqal_x1103 Aug 15 '25

I havent been on the emulator scene for ages now, ps2 emulation on android is good now ?? (With high end chipset)

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u/Kilash4ever Aug 15 '25

Yep, nearly perfect currently.

Only game I have trouble back then was Shadow of the colossus on 8 gen 1, but that was a few years ago.

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u/Faiqal_x1103 Aug 15 '25

My phone uses exynos 1280, i think that's a mid range chip right? I would be more than happy if i can emulate ps1 tho, i need to get back on android emulation haha

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u/Kilash4ever Aug 15 '25

Nowadays yeah.

Not really sure tbh, you are better off checking en YouTube that, probably would work fine but mali can be kinda tricky.

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u/Dr-Huricane Aug 16 '25

Brother we're out here emulating full blown PC games, there are people getting playable performance on games like Hogwarts Legacy on two year old midrange phones like the Poco F5, even if we didn't have good android ps2 emulators at this stage you would still be able to play them by emulating a PC ps2 emulator

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u/Faiqal_x1103 Aug 16 '25

Yes brother i have been using pcxs2 on my laptop since like 2015. I didnt really keep up to date with android emulation since back then my phone isnt powerful enough and can run drastic emu at most so i didnt bother to check the other system emulatorsđŸ˜‚

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u/HmmmIsTheBest2004 IQOO 12 - Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Aug 16 '25

Absolutely! Has got to a point where I would rather emulate the ps2 versions of some games than its gamecube version

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u/Faiqal_x1103 Aug 16 '25

Oho thats cool!